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posted by on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the to-be-replaced-by-piles-of-beignets dept.

A 2015 New Orleans Times-Picayune article tells how New Orléans' Vieux Carré Commission recommended that four monuments be removed. Three of them honour

[...] Confederate generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy [...]

The other monument

[...] was erected in 1891 to honor the 16 members of the White League who died during an insurrection against the integrated Reconstructionist government in Louisiana, which was based in New Orleans at the time.

Various news outlets are reporting that the latter monument, an obelisk, has been dismantled at the behest of the city government, and that the others are also set to be dismantled.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Thursday May 04 2017, @01:08AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday May 04 2017, @01:08AM (#504091)

    That's complete nonsense right there.

    If you go to Berlin, you'll find a Holocaust memorial [wikipedia.org] and a Jewish Museum [wikipedia.org] that includes exhibits on the Holocaust. What you won't find is any kind of monument or even a headstone for Hitler, Goebbels, Eichmann, or any other top Nazi leader, because the Germans don't celebrate what happened and certainly don't honor the people who led the effort. You won't find prominent monuments to the Third Reich's top generals either, nor even the soldiers who fought for them.

    These aren't historical sites that they're taking down. These are structures built to honor people who led the fight for slavery and white supremacy. Jefferson Davis in particular never said the Confederacy was fighting for any cause other than the preservation of slavery. These aren't people you build monuments to unless you too are a supporter of white supremacy, which most white Americans were in 1891.

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